An Illustration of Executive Aggrandizement: Populist Chief Executives and Judicial Independence in Ecuador and Turkey

• In Event: Populism, Elections, and Democracy

Brief Overview

This study demonstrates how populist executives’ overhaul of the judiciary looks like in real life by focusing on the cases of Ecuador and Turkey under the leadership of strongly populist chief executives Rafael Correa and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Author

• Didem Seyis, Central European University